Vol. 29, no. 3 (Winter 1985)
| Editor-in-Chief | John Fricke |
| Production Editor | Dan Smith, Lynne Smith |
| Bibliography Editor | Peter E. Hanff |
| Review Editor | Douglas G. Greene |
| Contributing Editors | Martin Gardner, Michael Gessel, Michael Patrick Hearn, Dick Martin, Dorothy Curtiss Maryott, Patrick Maund, Ethan Mordden, Douglas Rossman |
Front cover photograph by an unknown photographer (Rankin-Bass’s The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus)
Back cover art by John R. Neill (The Night Before Christmas)
Winter 1985 Selected Contents
This is a guide to the articles and reviews from the issue that will most benefit researchers, scholars, and collectors. The printed issue includes additional content such as news, editorial letters, and other commentary-based departments.
“Christmas Was Every Day with Aunt Ruth”
Dorothy Curtiss Maryott remembers her aunt, Ruth Plumly Thompson, and the Christmases they shared. Includes rare photographs. The memoir article is followed by “A Selection of Ruth Plumly Thompson’s Stocking Verses-at-Large,” small poems she included with Christmas stocking gifts.
“Santa Claus”: The TV Special
The editors briefly preview the upcoming Rankin-Bass TV special, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus.
Notes from the New Royal Historian
Dick Martin discusses the writing of his new book-length Oz adventure, The Ozmapolitan of Oz.
“My Father was ‘The Wizard of Oz'”: Memories and Anecdotes of a Famous Father (Part 2)
The second half of an unpublished article by Harry Neal Baum, L. Frank Baum’s third son, based on a lecture he gave twice in 1961. In this concluding portion, he follows his family from Macatawa to Broadway to California. This article was started in the Autumn 1985 issue.
Commentary
William F. Jannke III remembers Margaret Hamilton, while Scott Cummings, Carlos Colon, Janet Daley Lysengen and Hal Lynch provide their opinions on Return to Oz.
Reviews
Dorothy and the Magic Belt by Susan Saunders (fiction; reviewer Barbara S. Koelle)
Dorothy and the Seven-Leaf Clover by Dorothy Hass (fiction; reviewer Barbara S. Koelle)
Mister Tinker in Oz by James Howe (fiction; reviewer Barbara S. Koelle)
Ozma and the Wayward Wand by Polly Berends (fiction; reviewer Barbara S. Koelle)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Watermill Press edition (fiction; reviewer Jean Brockway)
The Land of Oz Watermill Press edition (fiction; reviewer Jean Brockway)
The Wizard of Oz adapted by Deborah Hautzig (fiction; reviewer Jean Brockway)
Return to Oz by Joan D. Vinge (fiction; reviewer Mary W. Schaller)
The Return to Oz Storybook (fiction; reviewer Mary W. Schaller)
Disney’s Wonderful World of Reading: Return to Oz (fiction; reviewer Mary W. Schaller)
Return to Oz (graphic novel; reviewer Mary W. Schaller)
Return to Oz: Escape from the Witch’s Castle (fiction; reviewer Mary W. Schaller)
Return to Oz: Dorothy Saves the Emerald City (fiction; reviewer Mary W. Schaller)
Return to Oz: Dorothy Returns to Oz (fiction; reviewer Mary W. Schaller)
Return to Oz: Dorothy in the Ornament Rooms (fiction; reviewer Mary W. Schaller)
Return to Oz 1986 Calendar (calendar; reviewer Mary W. Schaller)